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Black Rock, New Mexico

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Zuni census division. It lies in ZIP code area 87327. The Survey maps it on the Zuni quadrangle. 1,190 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,453 feet above sea level.

Black Rock within McKinley County

On record in Black Rock

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Black Rock fell from 1,252 to 1,190 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20001,252
20101,323+71 (+6%)
20201,190-133 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

728 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 728 fires within 5 miles of Black Rock between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,904 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 122 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning367
Arson/incendiarism122
Missing data/not specified/undetermined114
Misuse of fire by a minor60
Fireworks17
Natural15
Recreation and ceremony13
Other causes8
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreZuni AgencyORANGE
8 September 2009Natural4.0 acresZuni AgencyWEST DY
30 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreZuni AgencyROUTE41
3 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreZuni AgencySTRAW
28 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreZuni AgencyWEAHKEE
27 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreZuni AgencyREDCLAY
26 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreZuni AgencyTIRE
25 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreZuni AgencySOUTH SANDY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McKinley County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Black Rock: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
State Hwy Pit No. 71-19-SSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in McKinley County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Zuni Pueblo3.3 miles15
Tekapo9.3 miles13
Pescado11.2 miles14
Chi Chil Tah12.7 miles14
Vanderwagen12.9 miles14
Lower Nutria15.8 miles16
Ramah16.2 miles16
Upper Nutria17.1 miles16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Black RockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2411303The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 899539. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.